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570 Horsepower Chevrolet Cobalt SS Hits The Dyno: Video

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TX2K is a three day long event for high-horsepower street cars consisting of a roll race the first two days, and a dyno competition on the third. The dyno competition gives participants the opportunity to show off how much power their car is actually making, and can end with some surprising results. Take this Cobalt SS for example, which puts a certifiably insane 570 horsepower down to its front-wheels.

There isn’t much info on the ludicrously powerful Cobalt, but uploader High Tech Corvette says it made more power than many of the other cars at the competition. We can imagine the owner surprising Mustangs and Camaros when he leaves them trailing in his wake. Check out the video below.

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7 Comments

500 HP is not difficult to make with the Turbo 2.0. Now keeping the transaxle alive that is another story. Also getting a FWD to hook up is also a problem since the front wheels unload under acceleration.

GM has shown and given direction how to build such an engine in their Ecotec book.

Nice, but like Scott said, not uncommon or that big of a deal. The GM 2.0 Ecotec Turbo is probably the single best 4 cylinder engine in the world for making big, reliable, consistent hp. The problem is GM saw fit to stuff it into cars that were pretty much repulsive to most enthusiast interested in such a power-plant (Kappa twins excepted of course).

I won’t say they would have been a runaway success, but they would have definitely made the Sport Compact crowd stop and take a hard look. It also would have given those on a budget – but with aspirations toward hardcore performance – a platform to latch onto.

The I-4 Ecotec engines can definitely put down some impressive performance figures.

Keep in mind, this is NOT the factory-turbocharged LNF that came in the ’08+ SS Cobalts – this is an LSJ – the 2.0 that came with the M62 roots supercharger. Obviously, the blower has been removed – but telltale signs like the valve cover (including a coil-cover, and the trim plate at the front edge) and the upper radiator hose (with gray anti-friction material in the area where it traveled over top of the supercharger) are still present – which actually makes this an even more impressive feat.

The ECOtec engine is a very strong platform to work on, many levels, to me its one of the best engineered engines GM has put out on the market in a long time. It suxs GM hasn’t put out a car design to match the engine platform for it, in the end some how GMwill find a design that will give the “Sub Compact & Compact” segment a run for its money. Also to boot I work at FMSRPerformance.com, we have a 890WHP 09 Cobalt shop car.. so it shows this engine can perform.